A New Look

Ta da. After a year or so of tinkering with the old website, I have a better opinion about what I want. Wordpress felt over engineered a lot of the time, and its themes encouraged me to build a “business” site that felt too sprawling - I’m hoping this one has a bit more personality.

Designing the theme was easier than I expected. The best bit is that I can host it for free, since it’s statically generated using jekyll. Winning!

Writing Update

I’m working on the draft for the next Split Sea Novel, which now has a working title: “A Murder of Crowns”. It’s about dying kings, cursed thrones, a murder, and two siblings struggling to control their terrible powers. The first half is settled and is getting an alpha read. The second half has been plotted out into chapters.

I have plotted. Let's see how quickly I can write the second half now it's all down here rather than a big blob of ideas in my head. pic.twitter.com/hlAeGnF5rR

— Stephen Rice (@writing_steve) February 7, 2023

While waiting for alpha feedback (thank ye, dear brother), I’m going to finish off this website.

Better get back to it!